Film
Film around the world: Italy’s Suspiria
The first time I heard about Suspiria, I was nine and my babysitter was telling me I couldn’t watch it, shouldn’t even - that it was the most terrifying...
Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz
Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was...
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
‘The Godfather: Part II’ at fifty
The Godfather: Part II is a film about gangsters. It is also a film...
All Of Us Strangers Review – A Haunting Exploration of Love in all its Forms
"In All Of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh leads us by the hand into a dreamlike, introspective world. "
WATCH3WORDS: Palm Springs – Exuberant.Poolside.Mayhem.
'By taking the well-known Groundhog Day storyline and injecting it with a healthy dose of sun, fun, and drug-fuelled nihilism, Palm Springs makes one of the dullest formats in the book suddenly enjoyable.'
Nomadland review: questioning American individualism
The ideals of rugged American individualism are a powerful national myth, so much so that when they are questioned, it can feel like an...
Donnie Darko: more than an average coming of age story
“I promise that one day everything’s going to be better for you.”
Seen and not heard: the film industry’s troubled relationship with female directors
Scarlett Colquitt responds to the claim that "women directed films have a softer tone" with an examination of role of female directors in today's film industry.
Dip your toe into Schitt’s Creek
Schitt’s Creek is a show where the main character talks to her many, many wigs. It is a show which manages to make a...
The revolutionary empathy of Sound of Metal
The legendary critic Roger Ebert described film as a machine for building empathy. No other medium has the power to allow the viewer to...
Coming of age with Beanie Feldstein
All teenagers hit that age where they are suddenly on the verge of adulthood whilst still clinging onto what is left of their childhood....
The Mandalorian, The Boys and the Battle for Second Place in the Streaming World
The pretenders are trying to beat Netflix at their own game, and will hope that The Boys and The Mandalorian respectively will bring in new, loyal subscribers
It’s a Sin: a sublime and sorrowful social history
Davies understands that tragedy is awfulness plus its antithetical counterpoint
A Recipe for the ‘Great British Sitcom’
It seems difficult to think of anything so integrally British as the phenomenon known as the ‘Great British Sitcom’. Up there with scones, Big...
Biting the hand that so rarely feeds us?: an honest review of Happiest Season
*Spoiler alert*
At some point during the festive period, without fail, I curl up on the sofa and binge watch Christmas films. The usual contenders...
The Crown’s Unspoken Words
'I think, when it comes to any biopic, "real history" has to be deprioritised. If an accurate and chronological rendering of history is what you're looking for, watch a documentary!'
Maebh Howell writes on the dichotomies of the biopic, asking which is to be prioritised; accurate truth-telling or entertaining story-telling.
Cherwell’s best films of 2020
Our film team have put together a list of the years best, from the stylish and disorientating, Waves, to Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending masterpiece, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and the slow-burning romance of A Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Revisiting Godard’s ‘Breathless’ 60 years on
'Godard gives us a film that shows the white knight as the charlatan we always knew him to be and offers us the anti-hero instead. And after decades of excessively moralistic cinema, this breath of fresh air was thoroughly needed.'
